Patents by Inventor Miika Tupala

Miika Tupala has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11159061
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method that comprises receiving wireless energy from a wireless energy transmitter device; determining a power level value of the received wireless energy; manipulating value of the determined power level to obtain a manipulated power level value; and sending the manipulated power level value to the wireless energy transmitter device so that a FOD does not prevent the power transfer from the wireless energy transmitter device. The invention further relates to an apparatus, a device and a computer program product for performing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jari Muurinen, Petri Vuori, Juhani Kari, Miika Tupala
  • Patent number: 10762663
    Abstract: A method for analyzing a presence of objects within a space provided with a capturing system comprising a plurality of camera devices and a playback system for reproducing audio and/or visual signals in the space, the method comprising obtaining a first 3D volumetric representation of a scene within the space, generated on the basis of input streams of at least a first and a second camera device, said first 3D volumetric representation showing at least one object within the scene; sending probe signals to a processing unit; controlling the processing unit to reproduce, using the playback system, one or more audio and/or visual signals on the basis of the probe signals into the space; controlling the processing unit to capture a second 3D volumetric representation of the scene including reproductions of the one or more audio and/or visual signals within the space; and analyzing the reproductions of the one or more audio and/or visual signals captured within the first space whether they correspond to a presumed
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Francesco Cricri, Miika Tupala
  • Publication number: 20190273403
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method that comprises receiving wireless energy from a wireless energy transmitter device; determining a power level value of the received wireless energy; manipulating value of the determined power level to obtain a manipulated power level value; and sending the manipulated power level value to the wireless energy transmitter device so that a FOD does not prevent the power transfer from the wireless energy transmitter device. The invention further relates to an apparatus, a device and a computer program product for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Jari Muurinen, Petri Vuori, Juhani Kari, Miika Tupala
  • Patent number: 10340750
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method that comprises receiving wireless energy from a wireless energy transmitter device; determining a power level value of the received wireless energy; manipulating value of the determined power level to obtain a manipulated power level value; and sending the manipulated power level value to the wireless energy transmitter device so that a FOD does not prevent the power transfer from the wireless energy transmitter device. The invention further relates to an apparatus, a device and a computer program product for performing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jari Muurinen, Petri Vuori, Juhani Kari, Miika Tupala
  • Publication number: 20180336702
    Abstract: A method for analyzing a presence of objects within a space provided with a capturing system comprising a plurality of camera devices and a playback system for reproducing audio and/or visual signals in the space, the method comprising obtaining a first 3D volumetric representation of a scene within the space, generated on the basis of input streams of at least a first and a second camera device, said first 3D volumetric representation showing at least one object within the scene; sending probe signals to a processing unit; controlling the processing unit to reproduce, using the playback system, one or more audio and/or visual signals on the basis of the probe signals into the space; controlling the processing unit to capture a second 3D volumetric representation of the scene including reproductions of the one or more audio and/or visual signals within the space; and analyzing the reproductions of the one or more audio and/or visual signals captured within the first space whether they correspond to a presumed
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Francesco CRICRI, Miika TUPALA
  • Patent number: 9904267
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to techniques for exchanging data and/or power between a plurality of devices. In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a device may receive power via a voltage terminal of an interface. The interface may also comprise at least one configuration channel terminal. The device may determine to terminate power reception via the voltage terminal causing a current through the configuration channel terminal to decrease below a threshold, and the device may determine to supply power to the voltage terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Miika Tupala
  • Patent number: 9431841
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for device charging. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method, which may include receiving, at a device, a request message to enter into a battery power supply mode; determining, by the device, whether to supply to a bus one of a battery source or a power charger source; and coupling, by the device based on the determining, one of the battery source or the power charger source to the bus to supply power to another device. Related systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Kai Inha, Juha Reinhold Backman, Pekka Talmola, Pekka E. Leinonen, Miika Tupala
  • Publication number: 20150364925
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method that comprises receiving wireless energy from a wireless energy transmitter device; determining a power level value of the received wireless energy; manipulating value of the determined power level to obtain a manipulated power level value; and sending the manipulated power level value to the wireless energy transmitter device so that a FOD does not prevent the power transfer from the wireless energy transmitter device. The invention further relates to an apparatus, a device and a computer program product for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Jari MUURINEN, Petri VUORI, Juhani KARI, Miika TUPALA
  • Publication number: 20150293514
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to techniques for exchanging data and/or power between a plurality of devices. In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a device may receive power via a voltage terminal of an interface. The interface may also comprise at least one configuration channel terminal. The device may determine to terminate power reception via the voltage terminal causing a current through the configuration channel terminal to decrease below a threshold, and the device may determine to supply power to the voltage terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventor: Miika Tupala
  • Publication number: 20150270733
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for device charging. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method, which may include receiving, at a device, a request message to enter into a battery power supply mode; determining, by the device, whether to supply to a bus one of a battery source or a power charger source; and coupling, by the device based on the determining, one of the battery source or the power charger source to the bus to supply power to another device. Related systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture may also be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai Inha, Juha Reinhold Backman, Pekka Talmola, Pekka E. Leinonen, Miika Tupala
  • Patent number: 8897453
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a first bit sequence of a first length is assigned to a first group of signaling bits. Further, a second bit sequence of a second length is assigned to a second group of signaling bits. The first bit sequence is scrambled with a first scrambling sequence, and the second bit sequence is scrambled with a second scrambling sequence different from the first scrambling sequence. A first and a second orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol are assigned to the first and the second scrambled bit sequences respectively, and the first and second orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are transmitted as synchronization symbols of a data frame. Further, a corresponding method for receiving the data frame, and apparatuses for transmission and reception are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Miika Tupala
  • Patent number: 8675752
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to binary phase shift key modulating a first pilot symbol according to a reference sequence, and differentially binary phase shift key modulating a second pilot symbols. The original reference sequence and the delayed differentially modulated sequence are then combined before performing an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and inserting a guard interval. Receiver operations are an inverse of the transmitter operations, which were just discussed. The receiver does not have to know the reference sequence. Embodiments are directed to specifying a plurality of seeds that are bit patterns each having r bits not all of which have a value of zero, extending the seeds into respective sequences by applying to each seed a recurrence formula; and using one of the sequences as a comb sequence and using the sequences other than the comb sequence as binary phase shift keying patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jyrki Lahtonen, Jussi Vesma, Miika Tupala
  • Publication number: 20120155648
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a first bit sequence of a first length is assigned to a first group of signaling bits. Further, a second bit sequence of a second length is assigned to a second group of signaling bits. The first bit sequence is scrambled with a first scrambling sequence, and the second bit sequence is scrambled with a second scrambling sequence different from the first scrambling sequence. A first and a second orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol are assigned to the first and the second scrambled bit sequences respectively, and the first and second orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are transmitted as synchronization symbols of a data frame. Further, a corresponding method for receiving the data frame, and apparatuses for transmission and reception are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Miika Tupala
  • Patent number: 8130631
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to first and second OFDM pilot symbols. The first and second pilot symbols may have first and second sets, respectively, of allowed, forbidden, and active carrier frequencies. The second sets of carrier frequencies may be formed by frequency shifting the respective first sets by a predetermined frequency, such as the frequency difference between adjacent carriers. An embodiment is directed to frequency translating part of a first received pilot symbol by one carrier interval in a first direction, frequency translating part of a second received pilot symbol by one carrier interval in a second direction that is opposite from the first direction, and forming a correlation by multiplying the frequency translated parts of the first and second pilot symbols by complex conjugates of parts of the pilot symbols upon which frequency translation has not been performed, and summing the multiplication results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jukka Henriksson, Miika Tupala, Jussi Vesma
  • Publication number: 20120011548
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to binary phase shift key modulating a first pilot symbol according to a reference sequence, and differentially binary phase shift key modulating a second pilot symbols. The original reference sequence and the delayed differentially modulated sequence are then combined before performing an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and inserting a guard interval. Receiver operations are an inverse of the transmitter operations, which were just discussed. The receiver does not have to know the reference sequence. Embodiments are directed to specifying a plurality of seeds that are bit patterns each having r bits not all of which have a value of zero, extending the seeds into respective sequences by applying to each seed a recurrence formula; and using one of the sequences as a comb sequence and using the sequences other than the comb sequence as binary phase shift keying patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jyrki Lahtonen, Jussi Vesma, Miika Tupala
  • Publication number: 20120002737
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus and a corresponding method are described, comprising reception of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission, wherein the OFDM transmission comprises at least one OFDM symbol and at least one guard interval. At least a part of the OFDM symbol is repeated during at least a part of the guard interval. The presence of a burst interference is detected, and at least a part of the OFDM symbol occurring during the burst interference is replaced with at least a part of the signal received during the guard interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Miika Tupala
  • Patent number: 8045628
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to binary phase shift key modulating a first pilot symbol according to a reference sequence, and differentially binary phase shift key modulating a second pilot symbols. The original reference sequence and the delayed differentially modulated sequence are then combined before performing an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and inserting a guard interval. Receiver operations are an inverse of the transmitter operations, which were just discussed. The receiver does not have to know the reference sequence. Embodiments are directed to specifying a plurality of seeds that are bit patterns each having r bits not all of which have a value of zero, extending the seeds into respective sequences by applying to each seed a recurrence formula; and using one of the sequences as a comb sequence and using the sequences other than the comb sequence as binary phase shift keying patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jyrki Lahtonen, Jussi Vesma, Miika Tupala
  • Patent number: 7652980
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to first and second OFDM pilot symbols. The first and second pilot symbols may have first and second sets, respectively, of allowed, forbidden, and active carrier frequencies. The second sets of carrier frequencies may be formed by frequency shifting the respective first sets by a predetermined frequency, such as the frequency difference between adjacent carriers. An embodiment is directed to frequency translating part of a first received pilot symbol by one carrier interval in a first direction, frequency translating part of a second received pilot symbol by one carrier interval in a second direction that is opposite from the first direction, and forming a correlation by multiplying the frequency translated parts of the first and second pilot symbols by complex conjugates of parts of the pilot symbols upon which frequency translation has not been performed, and summing the multiplication results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jukka Allan Henriksson, Miika Tupala, Jussi Vesma
  • Publication number: 20090103651
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to binary phase shift key modulating a first pilot symbol according to a reference sequence, and differentially binary phase shift key modulating a second pilot symbols. The original reference sequence and the delayed differentially modulated sequence are then combined before performing an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and inserting a guard interval. Receiver operations are an inverse of the transmitter operations, which were just discussed. The receiver does not have to know the reference sequence. Embodiments are directed to specifying a plurality of seeds that are bit patterns each having r bits not all of which have a value of zero, extending the seeds into respective sequences by applying to each seed a recurrence formula; and using one of the sequences as a comb sequence and using the sequences other than the comb sequence as binary phase shift keying patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jyrki Lahtonen, Jussi Vesma, Miika Tupala
  • Patent number: RE46884
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a first bit sequence of a first length is assigned to a first group of signaling bits. Further, a second bit sequence of a second length is assigned to a second group of signaling bits. The first bit sequence is scrambled with a first scrambling sequence, and the second bit sequence is scrambled with a second scrambling sequence different from the first scrambling sequence. A first and a second orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol are assigned to the first and the second scrambled bit sequences respectively, and the first and second orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are transmitted as synchronization symbols of a data frame. Further, a corresponding method for receiving the data frame, and apparatuses for transmission and reception are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Miika Tupala